Dr. Crosby discusses "Poisonous Muse" with H-Net

Ohio State Marion Assistant Professor of English, Sara Crosby recently took part in a recent interview discussing her new book "Poisonous Muse, The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America."

During the podcast, Crosby discusses how the trope of the female poisoner permeated popular literature in the mid-nineteenth century.

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